If your social media feeds are filled with as much awfulness as mine these days, you might appreciate this timeline cleanse which features Uncle Andy playing cars with his nephew Jaxon Layne. It’s one of my favorite photos and always brings joy whenever it happens across my phone or laptop.
We recently had a fun birthday dinner for Landrie, and Jaxon was there entertaining all of us. I may have inadvertently encouraged use of a bad word, forgetting that children will listen. I was kidding around with Noah and instructing him to just “Do the shit!” his father had asked him to do, and Jaxon heard every word perfectly, precisely repeating my scream of “Do the shit!” in the next room.
My training of and engagement with the twins didn’t begin in earnest until they were about five or six years old – Jaxon’s education may start earlier, and he may ready for the man, the myth, and the bad influence of Uncle Al. As Auntie Mame instructed Mr. Babcock, “Knowledge is power!”
